Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in her range and the versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. The winner of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. She also received the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in this field -- from President Barack Obama. A luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent for dramatic truth-telling, she is as much at home in Broadway as well as on the on stage as she is in role in television and film. In addition to her work in the theater McDonald has also established a successful career as an international musician and recording artist. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her training in classical singing at New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating she received the first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the subsequent four years she received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. She received her 4th Tony for the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a leading actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned five Tony and was awarded the first prize in the lead actor category. In the year she received her Sixth Tony in the year 2014 her performance as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become the most prestigious Broadway production. In 2017 she made the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for an Olivier Award. First actor awarded in four different category of acting, McDonald broke the record for the total number of awards that an actor has been awarded. McDonald's theater credits also comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald made her TV debut in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald was an recurring role in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her work on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, returned on the network's air in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The actress joined the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she starred as an recurring role on the NBC TV show Kidnapped. McDonald got an 4th Emmy award for her role in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The following year, McDonald starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. She guest stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.